and transgender all play the leading roles, including the all-white male signers of the declaration, including john adams and thomas jefferson. as the times piece put it, the show, quote, was hoping to spark a conversation about power and representation and it has, if not quite in the way it intended. the show had already made some adjustments during its development following the murder of george floyd by police and the national discussion that it sparked, including bringing in a black co-director, jeffrey page, to work alongside the original director, diane paulis, who s asian american. two weeks after opening to what the times says is mixed reviews and soft sales, one of the show s ignited controversy. a filipino american who plays edward rutledge was quoted in an interview saying during the rehearsal process, quote, there was harm done and labeled some of the staging decisions as
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After a two-year wait, Hollister native Brooke Simpson will soon make her Broadway debut in American Reparatory Theater at Harvard University’s revival of the Broadway musical, “1776.”
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